Lucky husband

After more or less new crops of sweet potatoes were planted in the fields of most households, life in Shanghe Village became peaceful again.

Unlike rice, sweet potatoes must be watered every day. Sweet potatoes are drought-tolerant. If you water too much, the roots may be damaged. Moreover, the weather is not so hot now, and the water in the soil will not be dried out so quickly. If it does not rain, it will be three or four Just water once a day.

It was at this time that Qian Xinghua, who had disappeared for nearly two months, appeared outside Li's house.

The first person to see her was Li Mingjin. At that time, Li Mingjin was about to go out to find his cousin Li Qiusheng at the house of Erye Li next door.

Seeing a thin, yellow-faced woman in dusty clothes walking straight towards the courtyard of Li's house, Li Mingjin bounced over, took a look to confirm that she was not someone she knew in the village, and asked politely: "Auntie, how do you know?" Did you go to Shanghe Village to find someone?"

When she was still in Li's house, Qian Xinghua was neither fat nor thin. After all, with Mrs. Li around, the amount she arranged was always very precise. Come out big fat man.

Later, the Li family separated. Although she was very greedy, Qian Xinghua didn't have any money and didn't dare to eat and drink. Later, when the Chinese New Year came to a drought, she could only plan tight when eating. Come on, don't dare to eat too much.

But Qian Xinghua is a greedy mouth after all, whether she is in Li's house or she is in charge of the house, she will let herself be full after satisfying her son.

Therefore, in Li Mingjin's impression, his second aunt has always been a little fatter than his mother and uncle, so he didn't recognize it at a glance.

Moreover, the dress on Qian Xinghua was worn by her all summer, it was washed and faded a lot, and there were many patches, it was also difficult for Li Mingjin to recognize the clothes.

As for hairstyles, many married women in Shanghe Village are like her. They comb their hair up and tie it with a wooden hairpin. There is not much difference.

In short, regardless of body shape, clothes, or headgear, Li Mingjin couldn't tell that this person was Qian Xinghua, and he regarded her as a stranger.

But Qian Xinghua's eyes lit up when she saw Li Mingjin, she knelt down and grabbed Li Mingjin's shoulders: "Brother Jin, I'm your second aunt, why don't you know me anymore!"

"Where's your second uncle? Is he at home, and your grandma, are they all at home? I'm back, I can't take it anymore, I want to go home!"

"It's really good for you to live at home, all of you are white and fat, and you sent me back to my mother's house to suffer alone, Li Chengli, you..."

When Qian Xinghua said the last sentence, she barely opened her mouth, and the voice didn't come out of her throat. Li Mingjin didn't hear it very clearly, but he heard the first two sentences clearly, and looked at the person in front of him in shock. A strange yet familiar woman.

Looking carefully, it seems that it is indeed his second aunt, with the same inverted eyebrows, the same mung bean eyes, the same flat nose bridge, and the same harsh voice, but her voice is sharp and hoarse.

It may be that the second aunt I met this time was really thinner, and Li Mingjin felt that her expression was a bit hideous, and her fingers were so hard that it hurt Li Mingjin.

Li Mingjin shook his shoulders a few times, trying to let Qian Xinghua know that he was uncomfortable and let him go, but Qian Xinghua didn't notice Li Mingjin's discomfort, and still pinched him hard, muttering something.

It was really uncomfortable to be pinched, Li Mingjin didn't care that Qian Xinghua was his elder, twisted hard a few times, and finally broke free from Qian Xinghua's grasp: "Second Aunt, Second Uncle is at home in the right wing. It's here, grandma is at home, if you want to find them, go back."

After finishing speaking, Li Mingjin quickly ran away, and when he reached a corner where Qian Xinghua couldn't see, he rubbed his shoulders, with an aggrieved expression on his small face.

The corner where he was standing was facing the courtyard of Bai's house, Bai Zhiwen's window.

During the drought in spring and summer, the wolves on the mountain often went down to the village to find food. At that time, every household basically sealed their windows with something.

However, from the beginning of the rain on August [-]th to mid-September, almost a month has passed, and the wolves have not gone down the mountain again. Everyone in Shanghe Village gradually opened the sealed windows to let more sunlight into the house. Mildew in the house.

The Bai family is the same, but because of their special situation, there are no adult men at home, and they are one of the last few families to open the windows for safety.

Although they are the last few households, they are still open at this moment.

At this time, Bai Zhiwen usually reads in a well-lit place under the window. He listened to the movement at Li's house just now, and watched Li Mingjin being made uncomfortable by Qian Xinghua, because he was an elder and he was not easy to resist. , There is a slight fluctuation in mood.

After a while, he saw Li Mingjin break free from his elder, and ran to the corner rubbing his shoulders with a pouting face full of grievances. His expression was so lively and cute that Bai Zhiwen couldn't help but want to smile, but he couldn't help it. Feeling that this seems to be gloating, I tried my best to put away the expression on my face.

When Li Mingjin looked up, he happened to see Bai Zhiwen's half-smile expression, mistakenly thought that Bai Zhiwen was watching his joke, wrinkled his nose and made a face at Bai Zhiwen, and then ran to the next door to find Li Qiusheng .

Bai Zhiwen looked at Li Mingjin's back, raised his eyebrows, touched his nose, and continued to read with his head down.

What the two parties didn't notice was that the door behind Bai Zhiwen was open, and Bai Yao, who happened to be passing by, saw the interaction between her son and Li Mingjin, the elder brother of the Li family next door. Her eyes flashed with deep thought. Pass.

When Li Mingjin arrived at the door of Second Master Li's house, he had already forgotten about the eye contact with Bai Zhiwen just now, and shouted to the courtyard of Second Master Li's house: "Cousin, cousin, are you here?" ?"

Mistress Li came out of the main room, opened the yard and saw Li Mingjin: "Brother Jin is outside, your cousin just went out, what do you want from him?"

Li Mingjin saw Mistress Li, smiled at her, and said cutely, "Second Mistress, I just came here to play with my cousin. It's okay. Do you know where he went?"

Mistress Li didn't care much about the children in the family. She said uncertainly: "It seems that I went to the foot of the back mountain. Brother Qiu often goes there these days. I always thought that you two went there together."

"Oh, thank you Second Grandma, then I'll go to the foot of the back mountain to have a look."

"You're welcome, Brother Jin, you two, don't play too late, it's almost lunch time, come back early for dinner."

"En, I see."

During the drought, Li Mingjin basically went to visit Li Qiusheng once every two or three days. The time was not fixed, usually in the afternoon, because he was very busy in the morning with his mother to learn how to read and to teach his younger sister or younger brother to recite.

These days, because the family is busy growing sweet potatoes, he took his younger sister Li Mingyue to the field in the afternoon, and did not go to Li Qiusheng for several days. Only today did he find out that he often runs down the back hill by himself recently.

There used to be a lush grass at the foot of the back mountain. This summer, there was no rain, and a large piece of it withered. Now after the rain resumed, a little greenness began to emerge from the withered yellow grass leaves. Li Qiusheng was wearing a blue dress in the grass very eye catching.

Li Mingjin saw him from a distance, and shouted happily: "Cousin, cousin..."

Li Qiusheng straightened up and turned his head when he heard Li Mingjin's voice, he was also very happy: "Brother Jin!"

At this time, Li Qiusheng was holding a weed in his hand, Li Mingjin noticed that the weed in his cousin's hand was different, only a few scattered leaves grew from the stalk, but The root is not small, and was completely dug up by his cousin. There is a lot of soil on it, which is quite large.

"Cousin, what are you doing digging weeds at the foot of the back mountain?" Li Mingjin stretched out his finger and poked the roots of the weeds on Li Qiusheng's hand.

Li Qiusheng pinched the leaves of the weeds, and replied with some embarrassment: "When I came last time, I saw Grandpa Xing Langzhong. He was digging this kind of grass at that time. I thought he must be digging this grass for making I thought that since I knew this kind of grass, I would dig out more and give it to him the next time I saw him, and ask him to see my mother."

Li Caoye's health is not good, and she often hurts here and there, mainly because she was tortured by Granny Liang for more than ten years when she was still in the Liang family. When she went to work in the fields, she was asked to wash clothes in cold water as if menstruation came, and after washing, she did physical work. Over the years, her body has accumulated a lot of problems.

Li Qiusheng felt sorry for his mother, but the mother and son had no money. If he asked Grandpa Xing Langzhong to see his mother, it would definitely cause dissatisfaction with the two aunts in the grandfather's family, so he came up with the idea of ​​digging for medicine.

Although he didn't know what the herb he dug was used for or how much it was worth, he believed that if he dug more, he would definitely be able to make up for a consultation fee.

Li Mingjin listened to Li Qiusheng's words, and nodded seriously. He also felt that Tanggu's body was not good, because Tanggu was very thin, and she was the thinnest person in the Li family. Well, he also agrees to let Grandpa Xing show his cousin.

Rolling up his cuffs, Li Mingjin took a look at this herb, and felt that he couldn't distinguish the leaves from other weeds around him, so he said, "Cousin, how about you teach me how to recognize this herb? I'll help you dig together, gather enough medicinal materials earlier and ask Grandpa Xing to see your cousin."

"Brother Jin, there will be circles of lines on the rhizome of this herb, whether it is dry or fresh. If there are leaves that have just grown, the shape of the leaves will be like this..."

Li Qiusheng told Li Mingjin the characteristics of the herbal medicine in detail, and also told him to pay attention when digging the herbal medicine. He saw that Grandpa Xing paid great attention to its roots when digging, and he could not break the roots.

Li Mingjin listened carefully to Li Qiusheng's instruction on how to identify and dig herbs, and then confidently started to search for this kind of herb in a piece of barren grass.

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